Ice-handling machinery.



No. 761,320; PATENTED' MAY 31, 1904.

H. H. PORTER, JR. v ICE HANDLING MACHINERY.

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III "-51% UNITE STATES Patented May 31, 1904. A

HENRY H. PO TER, J

' OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ICE-HANDLING MACHINERY.-

SPECIFIGATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No 761,320, dated May 31, 1904.

I Application filed September fi, Serial No. 74,456. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY H. PORTER, J r.

a citizen of the United States of America, re-

siding at Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, have of which the following, taken in connection fication.

-sion of certain novel and improved devices with the accompanying drawings, is a speci- This invention has reference tothe provifor the handling of ice, and particularly for the handling of ice where it is to be stored or placed in refrigerating cars, and has for its object primarily to effect economy in the operation of handling the ice, and also to greatly facilitate the said operation, whereby consid erable saving'in time is effected, andit is not necessary'to detain the cars in transit as is the case where present methods are employed. The above, as well as such other objects as may hereinafter appear, are attained by means of a constructionwhich I have illustrated in preferred form in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a partial elevation of two icehouses placed near together, with a portion of the mechanism employed in connection with my elevation between them,

showing the mechanlsm for elevating the ice,

Figure 2 is an elevation partly in section,

and some of the other parts of the construc: tion, and

Figure 2 is a view showing the, devices related to a support which I employ for the delivery chute, 1

Figure 3 is a plan view partly in section, showing the tops of a couple of refrigerating cars in a position to be iced,

Figure 4 is a section on the line 4 of th Figure 5, showing a portion ofthe elevating mechanism, and

Figure 5 is a section on the line 5 of the Figure 4, showing another detail of the elevating construction. I

Figures 6, 'Z, 8, show an ice crusher that may conveniently be used; Figures 7 and 8 being in section, and showing two forms of the crushing roller.

Referring now more particularly to Figures 1, .2, and 3, it will be seenthat between two adjacent ice-houses 6 and 7, .I have arranged an elevating mechanism 8, comprising an endless chain to which are attached elevating prongs or shelves 9, for carrying the ice, and which'is driven by means-of some suitable motor, .as an engine 10,.and terminates at the upper end atadelivery shaft 11, where the ice,

if it be in large chunks, is discharged into a crusher 12, and from thence, after being crushed, passes through the chute 13 into the storage hopper 14:, from which it is free to pass through the delivery spout 15, when the gate or slide 16 is opened into a car 17 set with the opening therein immediately under the delivery spout 15. The delivery spout is mounted on rollers 18, carried by a pivoted bracket 18, (see 2) in a manner which will permit amovement thereof in any direction suiiicient to bring it over. the opening in the tops of the cars, in case the cars are not spotted upon the track in exactly the right position, and two adjacent hoppers are spaced sufficiently far apart to permit the delivery spout to be moved into position suchas will allow the icing of both ends of one car and the ends of the cars adjacent thereto, without respotting the cars.

' In orderto protect the storage hoppers or bins 1 1 from extreme temperatures, as well 'as to facilitate construction, I have located them within the ice-houses.

" In order to deliver the ice from the houses I to the elevating mechanism 8, I have arranged alongside, of each house, a suspended chute or incline 22, which may be raised or adjusted at any desired angle, in any preferred manner, so as to permit the ice to slide down by The operation of my invention is as follows. Ice being delivered through the incline or chute to the elevator, as shown at a, in Figure 2, is carried upward by said elevator and discharged into the crusher 12. Here it is broken up into smaller pieces, and delivered through the trough or chute 13 into the storage bin 14:, ready to be discharged into the cars. The cars are run alongside the ice-houses in the position shown, and when the openings in the roofs thereof come nearly under the spouts 15, the latter are adjusted exactly in the right position, and the gates or sliding mechanism 16 opened, permitting the small pieces of broken ice in the storage bin 14 to run down of their own weight into the cars, thus icing the same in a very short space of time, and at a minimum expense, both of time and labor.

From the above it'is evident that if the ice provided for use in connection with my invention, be of a divided character, as for example, in smallpieces such as may be manufactured artificially, it would not require the use of a crusher 12, but the storage bin 14: could be filled directly, and utilized in the same manner as explained by me.

If desired, salt may be mixed with the ice at any stage of the process, by feeding it to the ice from a source of supply. purpose I have shown a salt hopper at 19, With a controlling device at 20, the feed in this case being by gravity controlled by a gate, although other means might be used if preferred.-

The specific construction of the feeding chute and bin herein used, I have not claimed in this application, but the same is the subject of may divisional application N 0. 127,749, co-pending herewith.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

For this 1. The combination with a means for elevating and breaking ice, of a hopper for temporary storage of broken ice, and an universally adjustable chute for feeding the broken ice by gravity into a receiving car, substantially as described.

2. In ice handling machinery, the combination With a bin for storing ice in a divided or broken condition, of a delivery chute projected into position to deliver the said broken ice directly into a receptacle requiring to be iced, mechanism for elevating the ice to said bin, and mechanism for crushing the ice before it is supplied to said bin, substantially as described.

3. The combination with an elevator and means for crushing ice, of a temporary storage bin and an universally adjustable chute for feeding ice from the bin into a receiving car.

t. In ice handling machinery, the combination with means for supplying ice in a divided or broken condition, of an elevated hopper and a plurality of chutes spaced apart so as to deliver said ice to openings in a plurality of refrigerating vehicles in line without requiring respotting thereof, substantially as described.

5. In ice handling machinery, the combination with a delivery chute projected into position to deliver ice in a suitably divided or broken condition, into a refrigerating vehicle, of means for breaking and feeding broken ice into said chute, and a feeding hop per emptying therein for mixing salt or other substance with the ice, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing \vitnesses.

HENRY H. PORTER, JR. In presence of PAUL SYNNEs'rvED'r, PAUL CARPENTER. 

